I’ve never been, but my impression, and I think the impression most people have, is not that it is a racist place, but that it is a classist place. Opera singer Leontyne Price would be welcome there, but rapper Cardi B.? Cardi B.’s net worth is almost certainly greater than Ms. Price’s.

The point I heard most people making about Nantucket tossing out the Venezuelans that DeSantis sent was that many of the residents (especially the part time residents) of Martha’s Vineyard talk a big game about welcoming poor people from third world countries, but they have no desire to live anywhere near poor people from third world countries. It wasn’t a race, or ethnic thing. It was about their being poor.

Again, never been, but I get the impression most of the people who summer on Martha’s Vineyard pay great expense to avoid interacting with people who cannot pay great expense to summer on Martha’s Vineyard.

My point is that, in reality, Martha’s Vineyard has more black people than is typical of non-urban New England in Massachusetts and north of Massachusetts. It actually does have a history of welcoming black people, as long as they can afford it.

No, it proves OUR point. 🙂

Wow! I didn’t even notice that!

Guess that only proves my point…

🙂

If Martha’s Vineyard doesn’t count as a white enclave, nowhere does. And perhaps that’s much the better way to view it. But until the powers that be stop using racial bean counting to justify social meddling, Martha’s Vineyard counts as as a white enclave.

Martha’s Vineyard is in Massachusetts, and is not Boston and not urban. For non-Boston non-urban Massachusetts – or any part of New England north of Massachusetts – 4% is pretty high.

“Whiter than Wisconsin but less white than Utah” sounds like a very accurate description of Martha’s Vineyard. Far whiter than Texas or Florida or any other* Southern state. If we were talking about Utah or Wisconsin the media would definitely being saying it was white.

*Some people don’t count Texas or Florida in the South.